, 1887-05-26
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Port Townsend, May q, 1887.

have careful consideration.
Port Townsend, May q, 1887.
,EcIcgra pIlic IsrcVIticS.
Chicago viii DO its best to broak up
| trades unions.
The street car drivers ara all on a
strike in indianapolis.
The President, wife and patty ave
gone fishing in Saranac lake.
Gold has been discovered in Mar
ion county, Oregon, near Turner.
[. I. steamer bear sailed Thursday
for the north from San Francisco.
England had fierce snow storm,
doing much damage, on Thursday.
Floquct, president of the French
chambers of deputies, advocates pro
tenn ministry.
Steamer Willamette is loading 1000
barrels of sugar at San Francisco for
Port Moody.
Salisbury is negotiating for the
resumption of official relations with
the Vatican.
No foreign officer OF any nation will
be invited to visit the Russian army
drill this summer
Cedar Mountain, small mining
camp in King county, sends 4 purse
of $500 to Nanaimo.
A fine silver mine is reported as
having been discovered at Tuscola,
Illinois by Henry Baboold.
Gen. Telfridge committed suicide
in Washington. He was despondent
because of an incurable disease.
The schooner Angel Dolly will
search for the wrecked schooner
Active and try to bring in the wreck.
Santa Cruz charges her saloon
keepers SO per day. The city will
probably run its own saloons at that
rate.
Senator Jones is bidding for tract
of $4,000 acres known as the Mari
posa grant. He offeres S35O,O0O for
1t.
Miss Grace Lislie, leading actress
in kateI eICastleton's troupe, was in
stantly killed in a derailed sleeping
ear near Denver.
\ noted counterfeiter named Cady
was arrested on Thursday at Painted
post, n. Y. He has been constantly
hunted for ten years.
Eight bicyclers rode from Salem to
Portland on Thursday, making the
run in IL hours, distance 5S miles.
The roads were very rough.
Nexico has Il sensation in huge
bank robbery The doors were found
standing open and 100000 cash
deposit gone. No trace of theaves.
The Secretary of the Treasury is
susd on yesterday call for SI9,717,-
500 of bonds of the loan of 1882 and
for all 6 per cent bonds amounting
to Sl7,000,000.
The Canadian Pacific railroad and
the province of ManItona are having
trouble as to whether the provincial
government shall grant any charters
to rival roads or not.
Great forest fires still rage Mich
igan. Tho village of Lake Linden is
entirely cosumed. Stamp mills val
ued at S500,000 were located there
The loss is very heavy.
Senator Sherman testifies that he
owns no stock in the Union Pacific
railroad. and none in the First Ma
tional Bank of New York. He does
own $4,000 worth of stock in the p.
| +. ". q &. railroad.
The following is the pledge now
required by Illinois Architects Asso-
citation of every man they employ
Fifty thousand workmen are affected
by 1t: L recognize the right Of
every man to decide for hims. II,
without dictation or interference,
when he shall work or cease work !;
where no shall work; for whom he
shall work; how many hours lie shall
work; and for what wages lie shall
work, l recognize the absolute right
of the employer TO decide for him
self, without interference from any
source, whom he shall employ Or
or cause TO employ; to regulate and
manage his business with perfect
independence and freedom, pro-
vided only that he deal lawfully,
justly and honorably with all men.
L recognize the right of every father
t. have his son to learn lawful trade
as on a plane with his to knowledge
of reading, writing, or any other
branch of learning, and that it should
lie subject to regulation CnIy by the
law of the land l hereby pledge
myself in all my relations and inter.
course with my employer and fellow
workmen to maintain and to live up
to these principles" This ofcourse
Is death blow at Trades union.
1t reads like a new declaration of
independesce. What the result will
be, can only be conjectnred. but it Is
earnestly TO be hoped that both the
interests of employers and employees
may be rightly guarded. 1t is a
problem that ought to be very care :
fully handled